Where should Superior Drummer 3.vst be located?

[Jakob Åhgren Thörnblad]

Hi,
I have the Cubase Pro 9.0.30 64bit on iMac27 2012 Sierra 10.12.6
Just purchased and installed the SD3 Crossgrade/Upgrade.
The Stand alone App seem to work, but I can not find the SD3 in VST Instrument list when I open a Instrument track.
I have tried to update the Plug In Manager but the SD3 does not show up.
How do I get it to work?
Regards Jakob

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[Henrik]

The default VST path is Macintosh HD/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST

In Cubase Plug-in manager, check what path(s) it’s using for VST:s, and check those paths for the “Superior Drummer 3.vst” file

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[Jakob Åhgren Thörnblad]

Ok thanks.
Actually it was a Cubase Pro – Plug-In Manager thing, I didn’t understand.
One had to drag an drop the vst from one section to another in the Plug -In Manager, in order for it to show up as a Vst instrument, which was new to me.
Anyway – now it’s working!
Thanks.

[Henrik]

Notice that if you move the VST from where the Superior Drummer 3 installer placed it, it can get troublesome to update Superior Drummer 3 – since it will try to update the VST in the original path!

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[Kingwozza]

Hey guys!

I’m having a similar problem and it’s driving me crazy.

Standalone works fine but Cubase isn’t showing the plugin. I’ve removed SD2 and checked and changed all of the file paths but still no joy.

Any ideas?

[Scott]

@Kingwozza said:
Hey guys!

I’m having a similar problem and it’s driving me crazy.

Standalone works fine but Cubase isn’t showing the plugin. I’ve removed SD2 and checked and changed all of the file paths but still no joy.

Any ideas?  

What version of Cubase? Is it a 64-bit version? What is the path location shown in S3 standalone?

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[rrosin]

@Kingwozza said:
Standalone works fine but Cubase isn’t showing the plugin.
Any ideas?  

Superior Drummer and EZDrummer place their plugin in a subfolder “toontrack”, which isn’t scanned from Cubase as default. You must add this folder manually to Cubase and rescan the VSTs for find it.

Regards Reiner

[Kingwozza]

@Scott said:

What version of Cubase? Is it a 64-bit version? What is the path location shown in S3 standalone?  

I’m running Cubase 6, 32bit version, path location is library/audio/vst

I’ve checked the path in the plugin manager but it still doesn’t appear.

[Scott]

@Kingwozza said:

I’m running Cubase 6, 32bit version, path location is library/audio/vst

I’ve checked the path in the plugin manager but it still doesn’t appear.  

S3 is 64-bit only. You will need a 64-bit host.

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[Gerard JACQUINOT]

Hello Toontrack,

Dans Samplitude prox4, en 64 bits. Windows 10

Problème: samplitude reconnait la version installée 3.1.7 de SD3 mais ne trouve pas la DLL pour les VST ?

Par contre, il voit la DLL de l’ancienne version 3.0.3 du 8/11/2017. Samplitude me demande de réinstaller l’ancienne version ??

Question: Comment je récupère cette DLL Version: 3.1.7 ?

Merci d’avance,

gerardjacquinot@sfr.fr

Cordialement,

 

Operating system: Windows 10

[Jeffriey]

Superior Drummer and EZDrummer place their plugin in a subfolder toontrack, which isn’t scanned from Cubase as default. You must add this folder manually to Cubase and rescan the VSTs for find it.

[john snyder]

i fought for 2 days looking for where the pathway was at and…and no the sd3 standalone help pathway didn’t help either led me off to no where! .. finally i found it in none of the pathways that most folks said it was in c\programs\common files\VST3\Toontrack  ,    I didn’t change anything at 1st  let it go to the Vst , it wanted ,then the search was on.  finally i started to put the SD3 .dll    in all the vst files..and finaly ended up here.. C\program\steinberg\cubase elements 10.5 \VSTPlugins. never had any kind of issue like this with any software. hope this will help someone..GL

Operating system: Windows 10

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Thanked by: thegreens0725

[Gutowskis]

If you didn’t make a note of the VST install path during the installation, there is a way to find out where the plug-in was installed, in case the product comes with a standalone application: Launch the standalone, open its Help menu and choose Show Plug-In Path

• This post was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by John.

[thegreens0725]

John – I was fighting this for DAYS. I ended up dropping the .dll file into all of my previously routed VST path’s (probably 5 or 6) and it finally scanned and it’s working great. Thanks for the creative idea. Simple – but effective.

Operating system: Windows 10

• This post was modified 3 years, 12 months ago by thegreens0725.

[macmusica]

Ah so VST2 not “supported” although some VST3 do show up by using the VST2 Search Box at the bottom. How sly to try hide our Plugins and not perform even a thorough search on it’s own for the full Drive!
So far I am feeling a lack of open friendliness and have seen a blog on a User with a ton of issues he suggested and they are just not here. Lots to be done! I’ve always found the lack of easy interface for the most simplest of jobs like dynamic velocity on Cubase just awful. It took them over 25yrs to get it added as it is now!

[John]

Hi,

if you move or copy the .dll file manually, you are actually breaking functionality. The Product Manager will not “know” where your moved/copied .dll files reside and any updates will not be performed. Other stuff can happen as well.

Please locate where the SD3 Standalone application finds its .dll file and point all other software to this location in the VST Search/Scan.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

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